-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 En/La Deric Stowell ha escrit, a 31/05/05 18:22: | Adrian Try wrote: | |>> What is your experience with the Thunderbird? |>> I am looking for an alternative to the MS Outlook 2002 which I do |>> not like at all. I am using Windows XP Home. |>> Regards, |>> Gregory |>> Los Angeles |> |> |> |> I'm a pim fan. For years I've reluctantly "used" Outlook in Windows |> because of its ability to synchronise with Pocket PC's. I mainly used |> Pocket Outlook on the Pocket PC, though, using Outlook mainly as a |> place to store the pim data. I also used to use Outlook as my primary |> email program, partly so that it would be synchronised onto my Pocket |> PC. |> |> In Windows there are alternatives. The ancient Ecco Pro is still |> available, and is in the process of being made open source. |> EssentialPIM (www.essentialpim.com) is a new promising alternative. |> Each program has its own advantages. In Linux, the obvious choices |> would be Evolution and Kontact. |> |> But Thunderbird is definitely a worthy contender as an Outlook |> replacement. |> |> Like Outlook, Thunderbird does email, and does it much better in my |> opinion. It has built in spam filtering, properly threaded email, and |> very flexible filtering and searching options. Unlike Outlook (but |> like Outlook Express), it also does newsgroups. Unlike Outlook |> Express, it allows you to open attachments that don't come from |> Microsoft. |> |> Probably the best place for an address book is with an email program. |> Thunderbird's is quite good - I like it quite a lot. Searching is |> very quick. It doesn't have as many fields as Outlook, but how many |> do you need? Using Thunderbird's tree structure, you can have the |> same address details in several places (e.g. mailing lists). Updates |> to the one address update them all. You can also have multiple |> address books in separate files all accessible at once in the same |> tree structure. |> |> By default, Thunderbird doesn't come with a calendar app, but the |> Sunbird calendar is excellent (available from the Mozilla site). You |> can install it either as an addon to Thunderbird (or Firefox or the |> Mozilla suite), or as a stand alone application. It has all the usual |> features, and can synchronise with an online calendar. |> |> For quite some time you have been able to use the Mozilla suite's |> address book as a data source for OpenOffice.org. I'm glad to see |> that the 2.0 beta now does the same for the Thunderbird address book. |> I'd like to see more cross functionality - that would require a |> cooperative effort. |> |> Outlook interfaces quite well with MS Word. In a previous job, I was |> able to use the Outlook address book as a starting point as a letter |> to be created in Word, or use the Outlook address book as a data |> source for a mailmerge in Word. You can even use Word as a source of |> email mailmerges for that are sent out back through Outlook. That's |> quite handy. Now most of that functionality is available in the |> Thunderbird/OpenOffice.org combination. |> |> I'm not aware of a way of using Thunderbird as a _starting point_ for |> a single letter in OOo (yet), but I love being able to view the data |> sources from any OOo program by pressing F4. I'm only just starting |> to experiment with this functionality, but I've found I can drag a |> single field into my document, a whole record (which brings up a |> wizard for how to insert the data), and even drag the entire table |> into a word document (which brings up a different wizard). All of |> this looks very promising. |> |> It is also possible to use OOo for bulk mail drops of HTML formatted |> emails. In short, it now seems possible to do most of what I was using |> the MS Office suite for with a Thunderbird OOo combination. |> |> I would be very interested to hear of other people's approaches to |> integrating pims with OpenOffice.org. I'm sure that macros could be |> created to add even more functionality. |> |> Adrian |> Gold Coast |> Queensland |> Send instant messages to your online friends |> http://au.messenger.yahoo.com |> |> --------------------------------------------------------------------- |> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |> For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | | Hello, i was reading your post with interest, this is something i took | the time to research as well some time back. | One thing you need to be aware of when switching (if you are going to) | to thunderbird. There is NO FACILITY for export of the email. There is | an IMPORT feature, but NOTHING for exporting. SO this means that wehne | you switch over and begi using thunderbird, even for a trial, you have | no way of getting your email bacj out of it. What i ended up doing is | running outlook and thunderbird in tandem for a while, just so i still | had comlete access to my mail folders. Eithe that or you need to setup | your email accounts as IMAP. |
NO FACILITY for export of the email? Have a look here, http://kb.mozillazine.org/Importing_and_exporting_your_mail | Second, you can install a calendar into thnderbird as an extension. It | works quite well. | | Third, thunderbird has no real support for signatures. this is the only | real "problem" that I have with thunderbird. | I'm not sure what you mean by "no real support for signatures". TBird certainly seems to support signatures. I use them myself with TBird. Can you elaborate a bit on what you mean? | | Respectfully, | | Deric Stowell Thanks, Jonathan -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFCnLH364+f0AXUe+4RAi+VAJ9eFbfXJjpEQqx9fdyfrcUXqonVZwCfYI8X duDxR8nAcgSJLSeqYaawmZI= =FkpD -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
